Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!

Welcome to our Year 6 class page! Our class teacher is Miss Sykes - she is also our school's maths and science lead. Our wonderful teaching assistants are Mrs Yardley (mornings) and Mrs Buxton (afternoons). Miss McQuirk teaches the class on a Thursday afternoon to cover PPA time.

Our Timetable

Click here for Y6 Curriculum Overview

Key Information

Key Days

Monday

Reading booster club after school with Miss Sykes.

Tuesday

Maths booster club after school with Miss Sykes.
PE day - the children should please bring their PE kits into school for a PE session in the afternoon.

Wednesday

The children who have guitar lessons should please bring their guitars into school each Wednesday.

Thursday

Netball and football clubs after school with Mr Richardson and Mrs Fitch - children attending should please bring their PE kits.
Children will have a short spelling test each Thursday.
Homework is due in on a Thursday. This is usually set on online platforms, and the children are given the opportunity to complete this in school if they do not have access to devices at home.

Friday

PE day - the children should please wear their PE kits for school for a session with the WLSP coach in the afternoon.
Homework and spellings are set for the following week.
Library time - children should please bring their library books in so that they can swap them.

A Kindly Reminder

Children should please bring water bottles to school every day - these should be clearly labelled with their names.
Please ensure that all items of clothing are clearly labelled - hopefully this will help us to avoid things getting lost.
Reading records should be brought into school every day please.
Children need a school PE kit that consists of pumps, black shorts and a blue T-shirt. For outside sessions during the winter, children can wear black/navy bottoms and their school jumper or cardigan for warmth or a suitable hoodie or tracksuit top.

Homework

Homework is set on a Friday and should be returned by the following Thursday. This will include work set on our online learning platforms: Times Tables Rockstars, SPAG.com, maths.co.uk and Spelling Shed. The children's login details can be found in their reading records. Spellings will be sent home on a Friday and the children will be tested on these on Thursdays. I will update DOJO each Friday with details of all homework tasks and information about upcoming events in school.

Useful Websites

The children could access the following websites to support their learning at home. Please contact me if you need another copy of their login details.

Times Tables Rockstars
Hit the Button (no login details required)
Maths.co.uk
Spelling Shed
SPAG.com
BBC Bitesize (no login details required)
mathsbot.com (no login details required)
White Rose Maths - home learning (no login details required)

Summer Term 1 - Plan of Action!

The children in Year 6 will sit their SATs tests the week commencing 12th May 2025. The children have been working really hard to prepare for these tests by revising all of their knowledge from across the curriculum. We will continue to practise example questions with the children prior to the children during the weeks leading up to 12th May. If you have any questions about these assessments, please do speak to Miss Sykes. Copies of the slides from the SATs information session will be uploaded to Class DOJO.

In addition, the children will be studying a range of topics in summer 1:

We will be continuing to question whether ‘life is a journey’ in our RE lessons and will be exploring Buddhist beliefs.
In history, we will explore how the monarchy has changed over time.
We will be learning about electricity in our science lessons!
We will be creating cityscapes in our art lessons, which will link to our learning about the ‘London Eye Mystery’ book in English.
In music, we’ll be learning to sing and perform ‘You’ve got a friend in me’.
In French, we will learn French vocabulary for food items.
We will play rounders in PE and will focus on ‘being our best’ in our PSHE lessons.

Spring Term!

Photographs from a busy spring term: enjoying the silent disco, playing maths games, taking our learning outdoors, dressing up for World Book Day and proofreading and editing our writing. Busy, busy, busy!

Autumn Term!

Pictures of just some of what we’ve achieved during autumn term: making a model of the blood, building bridges, completing calculations, playing netball and exploring time zones!